SANTA ANITA
SPOT PLAYS
Race 9
#3 El Potente
Plus
exacta box with #4 Gas Me Up
#3 El
Potente is the horse to beat based on his win last time in Santa Anita’s
one-mile G3 Thunder Road Stakes where he led all the way to raise his career
win total on this turf course to six victories. Has pace versatility, because
although he has the speed to lead, he can also rate and doesn’t need the lead
to win.
Play in
exacta box with #4 Gas Me Up, who won Woodbine’s G2 King Edward Stakes last
year at this one-mile distance and is already proven at the graded stakes level
in California two races ago with a last-to-first win at 6 ½ furlongs in the G2
Joe Hernandez Stakes with a 100 Beyer speed figure.
Race 10
#6 British
Isles
Has
converted to the dirt after spending much of his career on the turf and has
handled distances from 1 1/8 miles to 1 3/8 miles before, putting this
mile-and-a-quarter assignment squarely in his wheelhouse. Looked good with the
switch to the main track last fall when he finished second by a half a length
to Nevada Beach in the G3 Native Diver Stakes at Del Mar in a race where he
finished comfortably ahead of Westwood, who came back to win his next race over
some of these same horses in the G2 San Pasqual Stakes. British Isles then was
not embarrassed last time out when fifth in the $3 million Pegasus World Cup
against the likes of Skippylongstocking, White Abarrio, Full Serrano, and Disco
Time, and the assignment in this race should be considerably easier. The 3-2
favorite in the race, Just a Touch, likes to finish second.
SATURDAY, MARCH 7
SANTA ANITA
RACE 1
3 Booked
Clubhouse 3-1
10 Parnelli Jones 7-2
6 Take Another
Swing 15-1
RACE 2
4 The Last Straw 8-1 Live Longshot
6 Red Flag 5-2
7 Simple Song 7-2
RACE 3
1 Umbralle 5-2
2 Will Happen 9-5
3 Surfin’ U.S.A. 6-1
RACE 4
4 Splendora 4-5 Best Bet
1 Om N Joy 5-1
2 Simply Joking 5-1
RACE 5
6 Jimmy Blue
Jeans 3-1
5 Dakota Country 15-1
4 Phosphorescence 6-1
RACE 6
10 Captain Shreve 5-1
9 Memory 2-1
3 Decisive Win 10-1
RACE 7
1 Mo Sacha 2-1
8 Somerset West 5-1
9 High Society U 9-2
RACE 8
6 So Happy 2-1
4 Brant 1-1
5 Potente 9-2
RACE 9
3 El Potente 5-2
4 Gas Me Up 7-2
5 Cabo Spirit 10-1
2 Almendares 9-2
RACE 10
6 British Isles 6-1 Upset Special
3 Just a Touch 3-2
1 Midnight
Mammoth 8-1
RACE 11
1 Warm Sun and Brew 3-1
5 Minister Shane 12-1
3 Highplainsdrifter 20-1
9 King of Dragons 7-2
